I was always opposed to jail breaking. It seemed to much effort and then having to wait longer before you could update your device, as each ios update broke the jailbreak.

However we know don’t get snazzy new features with ios so I decided to try the latest jailbreak. It really is easy, so easy you are ready to rock and roll in less than 10 minutes.

So what is the net gain of JB. Being honest the impact is small but the feel is so much better.

On my iPhone 5 I know when I have the phone on mute as I have a little silent icon in the status bar. The same for notifications from other apps. These appear in the statusbar. I have setup the ones that I know that I have some messages for example. I also have changed the operator icon just for fun. Saving space on the statusbar I have showing the battery % but there is no need for the battery icon as well. So I removed the battery icon. When the phone is charging a lightning bolt appears. The other really useful tweak is making Google Maps app open instead of Apple Maps. Such as godsend. Then there is the adding of one column of apps on the home screen and an extra line of apps in each folder. This makes a world of difference in enabling me to have all my apps on one page and games on the other. With my iPad Mini I have done the same but adding more columns. My Mini also has the tweaks mentioned above. Both devices have a better youtube app that allows for high quality downloads. Finally on both the screen whiteness changes to a lighter orange warmer feel during the evening. Hard to explain but makes reading so much better on the eyes at night. I used sbsettings to have system toggles in the notification centre. I have also bought octupus keyboard but prefer the default iphone keyboard. So I just have a tweak now that changes the colour. I can tether my ipad to my iphone for free as well.

The iPad had a few more tweaks. Full screen safari and retina iphone apps automatically showing at 2x mode.

There are a few visual tweaks but nothing major. Whilst the above sounds a lot, there is only 9 tweaks installed on my iPhone and 11 on my iPad.